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burke and hare - robin laing lyrics

[chorus}
burke and hare were a terrible pair, their deeds were beyond belief
they worked underground in edinburgh town, the cruelest kind of thief

[verse 1]
aye they stole the lives from the city’s poor, the city’s waifs and strays
got them drunk, layed them on a bunk and smothered their lives away
and in the tanner’s close in the old westport, those rottens had their lair
and manys poor wretched, from there was fetched in a box up to surgeon’s square
ten pounds each was the priced they reached for the contents of every box
and denied folks lives to satisfy the knife of anatomist dr. knox
[chorus}
burke and hare were a terrible pair, their deeds were beyond belief
they worked underground in edinburgh town, the cruelest kind of thief

[verse 2]
sixteen souls departed this life at the hands of the villainous crew
“sure beats work”, says lazy b*gg*r burke and hare took a similar view
but their evil ways and their drunken days, nine months were cut short
for they grew too smart and the devil was shocked and very soon were caught

[chorus}
burke and hare were a terrible pair, their deeds were beyond belief
they worked underground in edinburgh town, the cruelest kind of thief

[verse 3]
william hare got a terrible scare, turned super*grass with glee
he snitched on his mate and left him to his fate, and he got away scot free
william burke, dangled and jerked as the hangman ended his life
and,a final twist, that famed anatomist cut him up with his surgeon’s knife

[chorus}
burke and hare were a terrible pair, their deeds were beyond belief
they worked underground in edinburgh town, the cruelest kind of thief
for they stole the lives of the city’s poor, the city’s waifs and strays
got them drunk, layed them on a bunk and smothered their lives away
the swine, smothered their lives away
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